Specific Increases within Global Decreases: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Five Days of Motor Sequence Learning

This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarship (C.J.S.) and Grant 238670 (V.B.P.), and Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec Grant 12014 (V.B.P.). We acknowledge Avrum Hollinger and Alejandro Endo for their assistance in developing the stimulus presentation software, stimulus–response device, and data collection software, as well as Jennifer A. Bailey and Anthony Hopley for their work in data collection and participant recruitment. We also thank the staff at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre of McGill University for their assistance with scanning and the scanning protocol.